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62-1616-198 62-5125-18 Pg. 5 Item from "DAILY VARIETY" dated 11/27/62 entitled "AXELROD FINDS AM. LEGION POST'S "CANDIDATE' BLAST 'HILARIOUS' When informed that the American Legion's 23rd Calif. District (Inglewood ) is seeing red over “Manchurian Candidate", coproducer and - scripter GEORGE AXELROD replied, "As good, solid comedy material is hard to come by these days, I would be most interested in learning if the movie rights to this hilarious, if somewhat ungrammatical, document are available." He was referring to the Legion Post's blast. . RA, in Chicago Pla aying a nitery, “could not be reached for his reaction to the resolution passed by the Legion' 8 23rd District, which condemns "Candidate" as "a vivid example of an attempt to under- mine Congressional committees.. A vicious and impossible portrayal of a U. S. Senator who opposes Communism..Blatan Communistic technique was covered up by an impossible and far-fetched plot. etc. Original: Issue of DAILY VARIETY dated 11/27/62. Letterhead memo dated January 23, 1962 entitled JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA, NATE STEIN, MISCELLANEOUS-INFORMATION CONCERNING ANTI RACKETEERING. Excerpts from the memo set forth: The following information was furnished by a confidential source of information. To date, this Bureauhas had no opportunity to evaluate the reliability of this source. Source related that STEIN is also a close friend of FRANK SINATRA, the entertainer. The source recalled that in 1958, STEIN was allegedly active in promotion of a ball, which was held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, for the “poor children of Italy." The source recalled that on one occasion